Swedish man is admitted to a Swiss clinic for terminally sick people.

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Switzerland for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic suffering of terminal illnesses, including Vellamo Toivonen (Lindfors). The patients deal with the fact that they will not leave the clinic alive in different ways; with self-destruction, denial or imprudence.—Mattias Thuresson

Doctor Canitz arrives to a sanatorium in Lugano where he thinks he will have a nice vacation. But the senior physician tells him that his sick and could expect a longer treatment. Two other Swedes are there too and they together slips out for nightly expeditions.—nL {[email protected]}